2 Peter 2:15-20

15By forsaking the right path they have gone astray, because they followed the way of Balaam son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness,

16yet was rebuked for his own transgression (a dumb donkey, speaking with a human voice, restrained the prophet’s madness).

17These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.

18For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

19Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

20For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.